skewer

Example Sentences

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The scene that best defines the story’s idealism happens long before Dunk gets clunked in the head or skewered by a lance.

From Salon

They dined on famed North Korean cold noodles or grilled lamb skewers washed down with cold beers.

From The Wall Street Journal

I start filling my own plate with anything that will fit—salmon skewers, cubed potatoes, roasted corn, and garlic bread.

From Literature

I was going to finish with a squinty-eyed skewer, aimed directly at Daddy.

From Literature

Here, Melville is an American Kafka or Gogol, and in this guise, he skewers our pervasive national ethos that values ambition and striving above all.

From The Wall Street Journal